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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 14, 2001Erath County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2001, 7:03 PM CDT for Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2001, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Erath County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3384 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
5.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 150003
TORFTW
TXC143-150030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
703 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ERATH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 703 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED    
  A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
  THURBER MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

LAT...LON 3251 9847 3228 9846 3249 9808 3251 9829

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson39 min
Jun 14, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker52 min
Jun 14, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton65 min
Jun 14, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant58 min
Jun 14, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin46 min
Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Lamar66 min
Jun 14, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath47 min
Jun 14, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker52 min
Jun 14, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Eastland43 min
Jun 14, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hunt55 min
Jun 14, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant65 min
Jun 14, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt43 min
Jun 14, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins53 min
Jun 14, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson50 min
Jun 14, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas61 min
Jun 14, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche51 min
Jun 14, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton, Mills55 min
Jun 15, 12:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills61 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.